Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1980s payments of this kind , and for related royalties and patents , have come to equal about 40 per cent of the income in dividends which accrues to foreign investors and they are usually given priority in payment over dividends . |
| 2 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 3 | Again although there will be occasions when the bare lexical item will suffice to indicate meaning , when the context or the convergence of knowledge of those concerned will provide the specificity required , it will generally need to be supplemented by the addition of elements which give the word a more precise conceptual focus . |
| 4 | Categorisation of this type has been disapproved of explicitly , and has not been adopted by the majority of cases which have eschewed such pigeonholing . |
| 5 | According to Satz ( 1980 ) this incidence is exceeded in the majority of papers which report relative data for left handers . |
| 6 | The majority of studies which have been undertaken have been phonetic : see Wells ( 1982 ) for bibliography . |
| 7 | The problem is that for some letters the majority of features which occur in upper and lowercase forms ( like E and e ) are different . |
| 8 | The fragmentation of tasks which went along with Fordism reached technical , social and political limits . |
| 9 | The reduction in costs which this has achieved has enabled the business to perform most satisfactorily in what has been a very difficult year in all its major markets . |
| 10 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 11 | As a consequence of this research historians know very well the variety of factors which led to the dispute — many of them already outlined in the earlier sections of this chapter . |
| 12 | The impressive thing about the British experience in this respect is the variety of patterns which have resulted and the good sense of each of them in their own contexts . |
| 13 | The issue is complicated , however , by the variety of forms which rule utilitarianism can take . |
| 14 | Here are some examples which give an indication of the variety of structures which can be listed . |
| 15 | By tabulating these responses we can gain insights into not only the sorts of patterns which recur , but also the variety of responses which is reflected across the six groups . |
| 16 | In practice , however government at the local level is particularly confusing because of the variety of agencies which help to shape and administer local services . |
| 17 | It considers , in very broad terms , the variety of circumstances which can cause a change of dependence/independence status for the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 18 | In the week during which I read my way through this long , exhaustive study , I was continually aware of the variety of masculinities which coexist uneasily within our culture . |
| 19 | When the Second World War broke out in Europe , it was difficult to get supplies of helpful books , and when the Japanese came into it after the disaster of Pearl Harbour , I myself , as well as the clergy and students for whom I had a pastoral responsibility , felt the need of prayers to meet the threatening danger , as well as the provision of prayers which would express a Christ-like spirit about war , enemies in war , dangers in war and sufferers in war . |
| 20 | Although , as shown in Figures 4–6 , above , the proportion of ‘ initial failures ’ was relatively small , with none recorded in the case of material issued from the Advocates ' Library , and with only 4% and 3% of all deliveries from the Main Building and the Annexe falling into this category , they nevertheless merit close attention , since delays in the provision of items which are in fact available on the shelves can be a considerable source of irritation for both readers and members of staff . |
| 21 | The implicit sympathy for the killer given in the coverage of newspapers which are routinely advocating more severe sentencing strategies might be considered contradictory . |
| 22 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 23 | The play 's story was about the change in men which can break deadlock and bring teamwork . |
| 24 | Frequently staff will resist the change in ways which may be less dramatic than sabotage , but be equally effective . |
| 25 | Montesquieu did not omit the deficiencies of Charles 's father Louis the Pious , nor the contributory factors of French fickleness and Viking destruction : but he put the chief blame on the " weak spirit of Charles the Bald " and , in particular , on the heritability of fiefs which Charles had permitted . |
| 26 | I am able to return to that blessed hump between the Severn and the Wye in ways which , in logic , Miller is prevented from enjoying . |
| 27 | We have , therefore , some agreement on the existence of effects which seem linked to age of the learner ; however , there may be a number of confounding factors . |
| 28 | So he finds puzzling ‘ The existence of trends which continue for millions of years — for if evolution is a random process one would expect purely random changes of direction ’ . |
| 29 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 30 | This device depends on the existence of institutions which can actually adjudicate on and , one hopes , resolve disputes in a relatively impartial way on the basis of impartial rules whose decisions are binding on the parties in question . |